Word: overgrown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Something decidedly odd is going on at the old mansion. The crackle of splintering wood emanates from the broken windows. A bathroom sink of heroic proportions has been plunked down on the overgrown lawn, and a man is chipping at a graffiti-painted wall with hammer and chisel. "Alllll right! " he says with a smile. "This stone is so wet it's going to come right off with a jackhammer...
...Cuba neighborhood. There was no honor guard and no red-and- black flag draped over the coffin, as there usually is for young conscripts killed in action against the U.S.-backed contras. And the cortege, passing beneath flowering cassia trees, headed not for the military cemetery but for an overgrown burial ground on the banks of a rubbish-strewn gully. "He hadn't wanted to go, and dodged the draft for months before he was caught," said Jose Manuel Alvares, a family friend. "This is the family's way of protesting his call...
...best, pro football has become a beastly game, overgrown to the point that last season's 263-lb. center for the Washington Redskins was summarily judged too small for the post this year. "Strength" coaches credit the Nautilus exercise machines, but not even Jules Verne could stand beside a modern lineman and imagine this is a product of natural nutrition. The rate at which these superhuman beings injure one another has gone beyond the level of an epidemic, and the extent of the owners' compassion was expressed last week by the wife of Jack Kent Cooke. Asked if her husband...
Starting with one of Hutchence's very first scenes, in which he shakes dust out of his overgrown locks, he is a brooding, inarticulate animal. He is utterly uninteresting as an actor, and only in the film's final scene as he sings "Rooms for the Memory" does he exhibit the sensuality and vitality that make him an outstanding lead singer. By that point in the movie, however, it's too little too late...
...people want to put back the overgrown regulatory thicket that grew during the 1960s and 1970s. The U.S. was clearly due for a round of regulatory rollbacks, especially in light of the relatively minimal intervention that the Constitution seemed to contemplate when, for example, it authorized federal regulation of commerce "with foreign nations, and among the several States . . ." At the time, the Constitution's framers championed a free-market system with little Government interference. Says W. John Swartz, president of the Santa Fe Railway: "The Founding Fathers would be astonished at the amount of rules we operate under today. Regulators...